Tag: Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics will continue a feverish offseason roster overhaul by signing free-agent point guard Shane Larkin, according to a league source. Larkin, the No. 18 pick in the 2013 NBA draft, played 72 games with Saski Baskonia in Spain last season and averaged 13.8 points and 5.4 assists. He elected to pass up a $6.3 million option […]
The Celtics and Raptors will lead again, but how will the rest of the Atlantic division shake out?
The Boston Celtics signed Paul Pierce on Monday so that he could retire as a member of the organization. Pierce, a 10-time NBA All-Star, spent the first 15 years of his career with Boston, winning a title in 2008. In announcing Pierce’s retirement, co-owner Wyc Grousbeck said Pierce’s No. 34 will soon hang in the […]
Steve Pagliuca says the NBA is going “back to the future” where the salary cap is concerned. This summer’s salary cap adjustment, which lowered the number to $99.093 million for the 2017-18 season, and set the luxury tax level at $119.266 million, took an especially draconian hit on the Celtics. That tightened cap number is the […]
Ten days after Gordon Hayward announced his decision to join the Boston Celtics, the team completed the necessary series of transactions that allowed Hayward to ink his four-year, $128 million maximum-salary contract on Friday. “The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy for me,” Hayward said. “There was just something different about Boston and different […]
Unlike years past, the term one-year rental, this year, can apply to some key free agency acquisitions, as well.
Jayson Tatum actually played a back-to-back-to-back-to-back in college this year, during Duke’s four-game, four-day march through the ACC tournament. So one part of NBA life isn’t totally foreign to the rookie. Games on consecutive days are going to be a common thing for Tatum going forward, and he knows it’s going to be an adjustment. […]
The Boston Celtics plan to sign free-agent center Aron Baynes to a one-year, $4.3 million contract, according to a league source. The 6-foot-10 Baynes, born in New Zealand but an Australia national, averaged 4.9 points and 4.4 rebounds over 15.5 minutes per game last season in Detroit. Baynes provides much-needed help on the defensive glass, […]
Boston Celtics guard Scoochie Smith talks about his experience with the Celtics, what the coaches want to see from him, his unique nickname and more.
Jaylen Brown talks about losing teammate Avery Bradley and watching rookie Jaylen Tatum blossom into a star.
